So What If We’re Wrong?

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While we head into a historic season where principles of physical liberty are directly confronted, debated, and decided, let us not get so wrapped up that we distract ourselves from the victorious author of real liberty, spiritual liberty, and eternal life – Jesus Christ. Continue reading…

We Are A Warlike People

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“We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel—ships, planes, missiles, fortifications—and depend on them for protection and deliverance.” Continue reading…

How we lose our Priesthood: We reject it.

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One of the most scandalous things that an LDS lover of liberty can say to another person in a heated political conversation is : “Amen to your priesthood.” I’ve said it before. It’s no way to make friends or win … Continue reading…

Three People I Would Like to Meet

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If you could have lunch with 3 people who would they be and what would you ask them? Continue reading…

I am a Latter-Day Saint for Ron Paul

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Ron Paul is the only candidate who truly understands the foundational principles of liberty, foreign relations, and fiscal conservatism–and the only candidate that has committed to rectify these issues when elected. Continue reading…

Our Right to Intellectual Property Through Contract

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Copying music, movies, pictures, or written text without the permission of the copyright owners is dishonest and is a form of theft. (Gospel Principles) Continue reading…

No Kings in Israel – The One True King

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By utilizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, living providently, and supporting causes that result in freedom of choice and individual responsibility, we thereby choose correctly: agency and liberty. Continue reading…

To Those With A Conscience

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As one can learn and master the laws of gravity and aerodynamics to take flight into the atmosphere, so can one learn and master the laws of morality and self-mastery to be lifted to a higher plane. Continue reading…

Kings and Judges in the Book of Mormon

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The very nature of the people, and their willingness to self-govern is one, if not THE determining factor as to whether they can bear living free with individual responsibility. Continue reading…

Thomas Jefferson and Public Education

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Did Thomas Jefferson support a system of compulsory secularized tax-payer funded public schools and, if so, does that mean liberty-loving Latter-day Saints should also support this form of education? Continue reading…

No Kings in Israel – An Essay on Gravitation toward Kingly Government

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The “inclination in mankind to a kingly government” that Benjamin Franklin spoke of is confirmed by the Biblical record. Israelite kings from David through Rehoboan and Jeroboam confirmed the prophetic warning by Samuel against kingly government. Continue reading…

The Principle of Individual Liberty Used to Determine Government Force

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Heavenly Father gave us our freedom, and our individual agency so who are we to take it away from others? Continue reading…

Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon: An Awakening to Self-Sufficiency

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My understanding of the scriptures changes as I mature…the meaning I attribute to scripture often expands and changes as my understanding of life, of nature, and of God changes and expands.  There is more depth and breadth to the words … Continue reading…

Will Ron Paul be America’s Salvation or Condemnation?

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And he doth suffer that they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the judgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be just… Continue reading…

Other Choice Spirits

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It is not the destiny of this generation to cross the plains: Our destiny is to save the constitution. Continue reading…

America’s Founding Fathers are Mormons

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In Mormon culture it’s common to talk about who’s who in Mormondom. There are even websites created for the sole purpose of letting the world know which famous people are Mormons. Many know that American Idol David Archuleta is a … Continue reading…

Notice To My Creditors

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To Whom It May Concern: I hereby demand that you increase my line of credit. The reason for this is that I want to be able to make the existing minimum, interest-only payments on all my other debts from the increased line amount you give me. Continue reading…

The Constitution and Slavery

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No doubt you are certain that if you had lived two hundred fifty years ago you would have been an abolitionist. Really? Where do you stand on the question the soft slavery of modern America? Continue reading…

The Natural Man is an Enemy of Liberty

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In pre-earth life we had the choice to follow Heavenly Father’s plan, which had Christ’s support, to come to this earth and receive a body and experience agency (the freedom to choose for ourselves), or to follow Lucifer, whose plan was to take away our agency. There is much we can learn from this first choice. Continue reading…

Freedom Requires Faith

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When each of us, as individuals, stand united together for the right of all people of any faith to live their religion, to be part of the public discussion and offer their input and perspectives, we gain the blessings that come from being obedient to God. Continue reading…